From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Oct 18 14:53:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA06230 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA06210; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA00427; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:53:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24450; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:53:26 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 15:53:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710182153.PAA24450@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "David E. Tweten" Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PC Card SCSI for 2.2 Stable? In-Reply-To: <199710182103.OAA05318@ns.frihet.com> References: <199710182103.OAA05318@ns.frihet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I may have just (okay, several weeks ago) wasted my money buying an Adaptec > SlimSCSI PCMCIA HBA card. I've been unable to get it to work on a FreeBSD > system, CVSupped from RELENG_2_2 about a week ago. The patches to make it work aren't in any version of 'FreeBSD' right now, although there has been recent interest. The patches to make it work are part of the PAO release however. (Note, even if the patches are brought in, they certainly won't be in 2.2.5). > The card is now temporarily in the hands of a co-worker who wants to try it > out with NetBSD. He maintains my problem is bogus behavior on the part of > FreeBSD. He says Card Services in FreeBSD should just have mapped the one > actual interrupt line on a PC card to whatever host interrupt it wished from > the pool, ignoring the CIS. The card simply isn't support with the current drivers, so your friend is neither right nor wrong. Nate